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What's the point? How is typing foo::bar better than typing foo_bar? It seems like you want the language to be more complicated for no benefit. Why not use C++

• rumanator 7y ago
  > What's the point? How is typing foo::bar better than typing foo_bar? You're missing the whole point of namespaces. The goal is not to replace foo_bar with foo::bar. The whole point is that within a scope you can type bar instead of foo::bar, or bar instead of foo::baz::qux::bar, because you might have multiple identifiers that might share a name albeit they are expected to be distinct symbols. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namespace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namespace
• einpoklum 7y ago
  > What's the point? using namespace kind::ofa::long_name; or using kind::ofa::long_name::bar; is the point.